Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 21:00:42 -0400 (EDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: andy@xecu.net (Andy Dills) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with ifconfig aliases Message-ID: <199904270100.VAA28941@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9904262022020.2697-100000@shell.xecu.net> from Andy Dills at "Apr 26, 99 08:33:11 pm"
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Andy Dills wrote, > However, whenever I try to do this on reseller3, I get: > > reseller3# ifconfig ep0 inet 208.244.234.134 netmask 255.255.255.248 alias > ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists > > It then shows up in the ifconfig -a: > ep0: flags=8847<UP,BROADCAST,DEBUG,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > inet 208.244.234.132 netmask 0xfffffff8 broadcast 208.244.234.135 > inet 208.244.234.134 netmask 0xfffffff8 broadcast 208.244.234.135 > ether 00:20:af:1b:0c:97 > > However, the ip address is unpingable or unreachable in any way. This is > not the case with reseller2, which is running the same release (as shown > above) and is using the same type of ethernet card. > > Does anybody have any suggestions as to how I can correct or debug this? I believe the problem lies in the fact you are putting both addresses on the same LAN. Could you also send the output of 'netstat -rn' to verify this? What do pings and traceroutes return? When I set my own address to another on my LAN, I get the same error message and a messed up routing table. Why are you aliasing two addresses on the same LAN? I am not aware of a really good reason to do that. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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